La Hacienda de San Angel Grand Opening and Food Pictures

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Living in Texas, I don’t have the opportunity to attend the openings of Disney’s restaurants; but boy did I get lucky on this one! Thank you to the WDW Today Podcast for allowing me to publish pics from their coverage. Check out their twitter stream to see more great pics from the Grand Opening at Epcot’s La Hacienda de San Angel!

Restaurant Info
The backstory behind La Hacienda de San Angel is that a Mexican family restored an old hacienda and wanted to open it to guests and serve food. The beautiful artwork and pottery throughout the hacienda are meant to be created by the house’s artistic owner. La Cantina de San Angel, the counter-service restaurant outside of the Hacienda, is part of the story as well — it was supposedly created to serve the overflow from the hacienda!

La Hacienda will be serving dinner from 4pm each night and will offer an incredible view of the Illuminations fireworks. During the day, it will serve as indoor seating for La Cantina de San Angel, which will serve lunch and dinner daily.

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Wow! It looks like the restaraunt had a great Grand opening. These are some great pictures, and are very vivid in colour. I’m surprised that they just limited it to Mickey and Donald when in reality they should have had the three caballeros.

I’m always surprised by how well iPhone pictures turn out sometimes. The tilapia tostadas were the tastiest, although I have to admit I had to turn down about half of the appetizers because they had pork or shrimp in them.

The rose petal drink was best described by Ms. Zannaland as “like drinking air freshner” LOL.

Those are great pictures, I wish my droid took good pictures liek those in the not fully over lit area.

The appetizers were surprisingly good. My favorite was the Beef Taco (i think that is what it was), and the (i think) it was seared Beef with a Chocolate/Peanut Mole (not positive if that is exactly what it was)

I have never been a fan of San Angel Inn, I find the food bland and americanized, really had a few horrible experiences here in the past. Having the same operators as San Angel, I am a bit cautious of La Hacienda de San Angel, however, the photos give me hope, it will be on my list of places to try my next trip.

AJ, do you know if the same group also run the Mexican pavilion at the Food and Wine Festival? The food there has been excellent the last few years.

Palmas Services, LLC has been in Orlando for more than 25 years managing San Angel Inn, LLC and Springs Food Service, LLC for over 10 years. San Angel Inn, LLC runs the San Angel Inn Restaurant, La Cava del Tequila, La Cantina and La Hacienda Restaurant in the Mexico pavilion at Epcot® World Showcase.

AJ,
Great report of the Grand Opening. I was one of the first guests to walk through the doors yesterday. I made a video which will be up in moments of the interior. I also ate at the Cantina as soon as it opened. If anyone had questions about either location let me know. I also have lots of pics.

I was hoping they’d change the order pick-up system at Cantina but it doesn’t look like they did. I’ve been to the old location at least once and was left standing there while everyone else got their orders and the workers forgot about mine. Very annoying.